lostinscapes
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“We live so many lives within our lives – smaller lives with people who come and go, friends who disappear, children who grow up – and I never know which of these lives is meant to serve as the frame.”
― The Details
― The Details
“I want to throw up because we’re supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support our own slow murder, and I’m amazed that we’re not running amok in the streets and that we can still be capable of gestures of loving after lifetimes of all this.”
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
― Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
“I’d chosen Brussels because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like.”
― Permagel
― Permagel
“What you have to understand," she says, "is that things can thrive in unimaginable conditions. All they need is the right sort of skin.”
― Our Wives Under the Sea
― Our Wives Under the Sea
“It’s a mistake to believe social media is all about hearts and thumbs, flames and eggplants. If everyone were only trying to be liked then it’d be kinder, and way more boring. But discourse is loneliness disguised as war. What people there really want is to be perceived on their own terms, which is so, so funny. Because if the grand promise of the internet was to be whoever you want, in reality it will make of you whatever it wants, and beneath every mask is another mask mistaken for a face.”
― Rejection
― Rejection
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